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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      06 July 2010
      06 April 1972
      ISBN:
      9780511660009
      9780521044578
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511660009
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      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.519kg, 396 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Politics: General Interest, Politics and International Relations, Texts in Political Thought
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
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    Subjects:
    Politics: General Interest, Politics and International Relations, Texts in Political Thought
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
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    Leader of the Conservative party for seventeen years and prime minister for fourteen, the third Marquis of Salisbury was one of the most successful political practitioners of modern times, as well as a major international statesman. Yet he was also a prolific and pungent writer on politics. The large body of journalism which he produced during the first thirty years of his career enables us to examine in detail the views on politics and society which underlay his practical action. While his brand of Conservatism was conventional in its conclusions, it was distinguished by the highly sceptical and utilitarian mode of reasoning through which it sought to reach them, and by its insistence on a crudely conceived class struggle as the driving force of history and politics. Its central theme was hostility to 'democracy'; and when, after 1867, 'democracy' seemed to have arrived, it questioned how far the system of parliamentary government could work tolerably under the new dispensation.

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